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CPU hours breakdown

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Below is a graph of the CPU hours consumed to date on all of our clusters.  We've broken down the usage per department or research group. CPU hours total Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…
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HPC Winter School

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The Centre for High Performance Computing will be hosting the 2012 HPC Winter School at the University of Free State and will run from Monday 2 July to Saturday 7 July 2012. Registration ends on the 7 June 2012. More…
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First citation

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Today we received our first citation.  It's taken about 18 months, which is longer than expected, however we're extremely pleased and are hoping for another two citations by end of July.  The paper was co-written by Dr Olivier and Dr…
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From vision to reality

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This week we installed five new servers bringing our core count to 208. In 2009 we were asked to develop a five year road map of HPC at UCT.  Given our inexperience we focused on the two most obvious resources,
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HPC School 2012

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The CHPC invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to attend the above HPC school and enter the competition.  Its purpose is to introduce South African students to fundamental knowledge of high performance computing techniques and select regional teams for the
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HyPhy in hi-fidelity

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HyPhy is an open-source software package for the analysis of genetic sequences using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning.  We installed HiPhy a while back but could not get it to run correctly in MPI mode.  It took…
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Autodock

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We've installed Autodock4.2 on the cluster.  It's a popular molecular modeling simulation package and is one of the most cited docking packages in the research community.  We've installed both the 32 and 64 bit versions. autodock…
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Crux beta patches

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One of our researchers has been making use of the HPC cluster to assist the Crux development team with bug fixing.  The very latest version of Crux is now installed on our cluster. The bug resulted in an incorrectly 'trained'…
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100,000 CPU hours

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Today our HPC cluster reached just over 100,000 computational hours.  99.993% of these jobs were real work, not testing by support staff.  It took only 7064 jobs to reach this total, averaging about 14 hours per job. cpu hours In 12 months…
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